Silke Langenheder
Professor at Department of Ecology and Genetics, Limnology
- Email:
- silke.langenheder[AT-sign]ebc.uu.se
- Telephone:
- +4618-471 2710
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 8201854
- Visiting address:
- Evolutionsbiologiskt centrum (EBC)
Norbyvägen 18 D
752 36 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Norbyvägen 18 D
752 36 Uppsala
Professor at Department of Ecology and Genetics, Erken Laboratory
- Email:
- silke.langenheder[AT-sign]ebc.uu.se
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 8201854
- Visiting address:
- Norra Malmavägen 45
761 73 NORRTÄLJE - Postal address:
- Norra Malmavägen 45
761 73 NORRTÄLJE
Short presentation
I am a professor in Limnology at Uppsala University and work on a range of projects in the field of community and ecosystem ecology. I am the Director of the Erken Laboratory, Uppsala University’s limnological field station and the Coordinator of the SITES AquaNet mesoocosm infrastructure.
Keywords: microbial ecology aquatic ecosystem ecology community ecology
The overall aim with my research is to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms that regulate diversity and functioning of microbial communities in freshwater systems, in particular in response to environmental change and disturbances.
My group addresses the following fundamental ecological questions:
(1) What determines the relationship between diversity and ecosystem functioning?
(2) What are the mechanisms regulating diversity across space and time?
(3) How do environmental change and disturbances influence biodiversity and ecosystem functioning?
To address the above questions we use primarily experimental studies using both lab-scale microcosms as well as field-based mesocosms.
Current projects focus on how the relative importance of different assembly mechanisms that structure bacterial metacommunities (selection, drift, and dispersal) is influenced by different global environmental change drivers.
I also work with coordinated mesocosm experiments using the SITES AquaNet infrastructure. Current experiments focus on effects of different run-off and salinity disturbance regimes on the functioning and composition of plankton communities. These are large, collaborative team-science projects which are open to transnational access through the EU project AQUACOSM-plus.
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